The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-12-02
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JUDGE WALLACE, of the United States
Circuit Court at New York, has decided on
appeal that l. II. Rogers, who was bonds.
imam for Signal Service Officer Henry W.
.Howgate, who absconded from Washing.
fton with $133, 900. must make good the
amount of the bond, $4,000.
The coal miners at Stoneboro and Grove
City, Pa, have struck for an advance Of
mime cents per ton in wages.
A CLOTHING firm in the Bowery, New
York, advertised the other day that 9 GOO
overcoats would be given away to the poor
and needy boys. Forty policemen were
cent "a, the spot to keep order. The store
was fairly mobbed. After the 1900 over
coats had been distributed there was still
thousands Of children in the crowd who had
40 go away disappointed.
Mrs. FAY, the medium, has sued the pub
Fishers Of the Boston Record for 50,OOO
damages for libel, in publishing what pur-
ported to be an expose of Mrs. Fay's meth
DDS.
ATLAS powder exploded at Scranton, Pa.
On the ed, demoilshing many window
panes. Two men were seriously hurt.
The application for the removal of the
Reading railroad from the hands Of the re.
ceiver was made in the United States Court
at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 23rd, and was
granted, and the property will be turned
over to the company January2 The order
also includes the Jersey Central and Buff.
falo, New York q Philadelphia Companies.
PRoF. SEGUIN and DIR. Godfrey dissecied
the carcass of the elephant Alice, burned
in the recent fire at Barnum's menagcrie
Bridgeport, Conn.,, and found in the stomach
over 800 pennies, part OF pocket knife,
four cane ferules, a piece Of lead pipe and
some pebbles.
JOHN SPELLMAN, the jockey, died at St,
Vincent's Hospital, New York, recently,
from injuries said to have been received in
a house Of ill-fsme. The coroner intended
t. make an investigation.
BREvET BRIGADIER GENERAL RANDOLPH
B. NARcEY died at Orange, n J., on the
I'D, aged seventy-six years. He was bre
veted Brigadier General March ID 1865, and
was father.in-law Of the late General
George b. Mcclellan.
The Athens:um building in Englewood
Nj, was destroyed by fire the other morn.
ing. Loss, 100000.
TwENTY-sIx of the leading shoe manufac
tories Of Rochester, n. Y, have notified
their employees that hereafter the Saturday
half holiday will not be observed.
The Puritan statue erected in Stearns
Park, Springfield, Mass, in honor Of Dea.
con Samuel Chaplin, one Of the first settlers
OF Springfield, was unvailed on the 9th.
TIE Socialists of Spain have sent to
Justus n Schwab, of New York, contri.
button Of $685.. y towards the support of
the families of the deceased Chicago An
archists, accompanied by very sympa-
thetic letter. ~
Ar the Boston & Albany crossing, West
fh0
team met IN collision with train. Two
men named Harmon were killed, J. L.
Burke was fatally wounded and p D. Cor
man was badly bruised. The horses were
killed and the carriage smashed.
A RIOT occurred in Pittsburgh, Pa, re
Gently. Sone Of the a.'0wl gang'' attacked
. number Of Italians, which, being resented,
caused knives and pistols to be drawn, re-
suIting in about fifteen persons being
wounded but no one killed.
TALE defeated Harvard in the inter-col-
1egiate game of foot ball at the polo grounds,
New York. on the Oath. The score stood :
Yale, IL; Harvard, s.
The stockholders Of the WESTINGHOUSE
Electric Company at Pittsburgh, Pa, re-
Gently ratified the recent deal with the
Consolidated Electric Light Company, of
New York. This, it is claimed, gives the
Consolidated Company q virtual monopoly
OF incandescent lighting. tFAs-
Two freight trains on the B. & O. collided
near Cochrane Mills, fifteen miles from
Pittsburgh, Pa. on the 25th. Three of the
trainmen were killed and Eve Injured.
The New York agent Of the Netherlands
American Steamship Company has been
informed that thirteen Of the passengers
of the steamer Scholten before reported
missing are now known to have been